🔊 The Right to Speak: What a Difference a Voice Makes
Updated for 2025 Silence “You have the right to remain silent.” I first heard that phrase in my 8th grade Civics class during the lesson on Miranda rights.A great lesson.…
Updated for 2025 Silence “You have the right to remain silent.” I first heard that phrase in my 8th grade Civics class during the lesson on Miranda rights.A great lesson.…
In early 2002 or so a group of us Women of Color working in sexual and domestic drove down from Virginia to North Carolina to a two-day conference. It was…
For too long, Survivors have been told to suppress their anger. “Be the bigger person.” “Let it go.” “Forgive and move on.” Society is comfortable with Survivors who are silent,…
Survivors are my favorite people. Hands down, no contest. I love their war stories, their wisdom, their testimony. They inspire me. I weep with them. I serve them. I fight…
Did I tell y’all about that time that they printed a speech I delivered in public in the paper? Well, that isn’t even the most interesting part. The most interesting…
7/7/2015 Tonight I am angry. That isn’t my default setting though. Usually, I smile so much that I have to consciously tell myself not to do it. That ain’t…
They say “silence is golden”. No, it isn’t, it’s tarnished and rusty on the edges. At least when it comes to abuse it is. Allow me to show my work: Backstory: A…